Introduction

1 This is a course in
miracles. It is a required course. Only the time you take it is
voluntary. Free will does not mean that you can establish the
curriculum. It means only that you may elect what you want to take at
a given time.

2 The course does not aim at
teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond
what can be taught. It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to
the awareness of love's presence, which is your natural
inheritance. The opposite of love is fear, but what is
all-encompassing can have no opposite.

3 This course can therefore
be summed up very simply in this way:

4 Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.

5 Herein lies the peace of
God.

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